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Forest Service Fire Experts Blocked From Attending Conference; Censorship Alleged

posted by takyon on Monday November 13 2017, @02:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the flame-on dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

According to The Missoulian (archive):

Several of Missoula's top federal fire scientists have been denied permission to attend the International Fire Congress later this month, leading conference organizers to suspect censorship of climate-related research.

"Anyone who has anything related to climate-change research — right away was rejected," said Timothy Ingalsbee of the Association for Fire Ecology, a nonprofit group putting on the gathering. Ingalsbee noted that was his personal opinion, and that the AFE [Association for Fire Ecology] is concerned that a federal travel restriction policy may be more to blame.

The Missoulian also said (archive):

The scientists no longer attending include Matt Jolly, who was to present new work on "Climate-induced variations in global severe weather fire conditions," Karin Riley on "Fuel treatment effects at the landscape level: burn probabilities, flame lengths and fire suppression costs," Mike Battaglia on "Adaptive silviculture for climate change: Preparing dry mixed conifer forests for a more frequent fire regime," and Dave Calkin, who was working on ways to manage the human response to wildfire.

takyon: Also at Scientific American (thanks to another Anonymous Coward).

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by unauthorized on Monday November 13 2017, @06:34AM (2 children)

    by unauthorized (3776) on Monday November 13 2017, @06:34AM (#596086)

    We have no desire to fund a campaign to disadvantage American industry while giving India and China a free pass.

    Yes, you (collectively) do because you buy cheap Chinese crap and thus indirectly subsidize the cost-cutting manufacturing in China which is what is killing the US industry.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @08:59AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @08:59AM (#596109)

    Don't worry, we'll soon be buying Chinese solar panels and importing Chinese technology while we sell Real American coal to any country more backward than we are.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday November 13 2017, @09:15AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 13 2017, @09:15AM (#596114) Journal

      while we sell Real American coal to any country more backward than we are.

      I know such a place, it's Newcastle [wikipedia.org]

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